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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Sentimentally Framed Tulips

I made this card for the One Layer Wednesday challenge #50...to make a one layer card with an old stamp and make it a thank you card. The challenge can be found HERE.

The basket of tulips is my old...very old stamp. The date on this stamp is 1995...it's one of the few I kept after giving up stamping some 10 years ago. I began anew a couple years ago, but STILL love this stamp...and was excited to be able to pull it out and ink it up again. I colored it with SU markers, stamped and framed with sentiment. I took pictures of how I framed it...just in case you were wondering(if you click on any of the pictures, it will give you a closer look:)!):

I used a nestie and marked the corners with light pencil(to be erased later:)!):

I then took my sentiment stamp that I centered from top to bottom ON A LINE of a gridded block, and lined the grid line the stamp was sitting on with each of the sets of corner lines. It looked like this:

Did that all the way around, added rhinestones, scored lines at the bottom and added ribbon...I know...a bit heavy with the embellishments...but I thought they really "fit"...and weren't too heavy??!!:)!

This is the first card I made...had it done, and then realized that the challenge was a Thank you card....so made another with a bit larger sentiment stamp.